[wellylug] Hard drive recovery tools

Ilia Pavlenko ip at globe.net.nz
Wed Oct 22 20:11:34 NZDT 2003


run a google for "forensic data recovery tool" or something similar.
You'll find some free and non-free tools, most of them Windoze-based
(well, it's monopoly, what you expect)....

Good Luck

Ilia


On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Robin Hinde wrote:

> What linux tools exist for recovery of data from a defective hard drive?
>
> The drive spins, bios detects it correctly, etc, but under Windows gives
> "unable to read drive" or similar error.
>
> Knoppix  can see and mount one of the two partitions on the drive, but
> complains the other is already in use. So I figure the data is still on the
> drive, but I need to extract it from the drive directly somehow.
>
> Any pointers to tools or docs that may be helpful? I've used gpart in the past
> to recover a deleted partition table, but this seems a bit different.
>
> cheers
>
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